Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

It never got weird enough for me.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.