The truth will always have a market.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.