With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.