Her sunny side was always up.

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

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

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.

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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