I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.