There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

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

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

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