It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll take a long shot bet on that.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.