You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.