So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.