Life turns on a dime.

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.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Adults are the real monsters.