THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

My life is a reading list.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.