A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.