Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.