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.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!