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

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.