There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

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

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?