I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.