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

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

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.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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