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

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

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.

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