Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.