Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.