The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.