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

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

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

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

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