If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.