First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.