His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.