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.

There is no story unless you've written it.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem