It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

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

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.