Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.