All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I’d finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn’t feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better.
And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don’t have sex in the lobby – it’s usually awkward.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country!
Don’t have sex in the lobby – it’s usually awkward.
It never got weird enough for me.
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem.
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.