Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.