I Don't Want To Die.

All Outcast Peoples Struggle To Be Recognized As Individuals. The Damage Of Oppression Is That It Robs You Of Your Individuality. You're Just A Faggot. Or Whatever - Fill In The Blank. Everything You Do Is Seen Through The Prism Of Your Gayness Or Your Womanness Or Your Blackness By Some People.

It's A Big Jump From Smart To Motherwit.

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.

Dad Could Charm A Dog Off A Meat Wagon.

When Mother Died I Was Both Freed And Abandoned, As Are We All At This Profound Juncture In Our Lives.