I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.