Your home is your refuge.

Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.