It So Often Happens That

We Travel, In Essence, To Become Young Fools Again - To Slow Time Down And Get Taken In, And Fall In Love Once More.

American Dreams Are Strongest In The Hearts Of Those Who Have Seen America Only In Their Dreams.

Writing Is, In The End, That Oddest Of Anomalies: An Intimate Letter To A Stranger.

I Like California Because It Still Has The Glamour And Romanticism And Exoticism Of A Very Foreign Place. It Was The Place That When I Was Young, I Was Raised On "i Love Lucy" And Listening To The Grateful Dead And Reading Jack Kerouac. They, To Me, Were All Symbols Of This Very Foreign Sense Of Promise And Movement. After All This Time Here I'm Glad I Still Have It.

For Citizens Who Think Themselves Puppets In The Hands Of Their Rulers, Nothing Is More Satisfying Than Having Rulers As Puppets In Their Hands.