The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.