People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

...Skyscraper National Park

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

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

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.