Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

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

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.