The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

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."

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.