And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

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

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.