Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.