I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.