There is no story unless you've written it.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

I've been studying drugs for years.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.