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

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.