Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.