Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

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.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.