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

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

It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.