[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

Good people drink good beer.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.