There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.

I'll call New York for some cash.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.