For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.