Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Good people drink good beer.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.