Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.