The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

The world news might not be therapeutic.