The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.