I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

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.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.