I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

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.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.