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

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.