I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

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.

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.