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Fairytales are true. The wolf is big and bad and I am talking to him right here and now. I

Fighting crime by building more jails is like fighting cancer by building more cemetaries.

My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was

UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Paul tells where the

And because, from the Western perspective, the main source of the heresy seemed to be Bulgaria, the heretics were often called Bulgars—bougres in French, thus buggers in English.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Seriously bad ideas (are) bad ideas which appeal to the prejudices of serious people.

Salvation should be understood first and foremost as the appropriate relation of the human being, individually and collectively, to reality in its most comprehensive sense.

So sue me, I think the marijuana laws are bullshit.

trial lawyer's best friend, scurrilous innuendo.

standard fare in a county where gun control means holding it with two hands.

Instead, the Municipal Center

He said he didn't need a lawyer because he was innocent." I tried not to grimace, so I just ground my teeth. When you're innocent, you really need a lawyer because of police and prosecution foul-ups. To say nothing of the average citizen's tendency to get scared and confused when being questioned by cops.

PETA, she'd change the name to People for Especially Tasty Animals. But

said. He started packing, dropping a cap and sunglasses

That's ridiculous. I've never sold a milligram of trayf in my life.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question.

that all there is is love. Pity us not. Los Angeles 29 June 1987

To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

If I give away my emotional independence and allow any other person to control my emotions, then they control not only my emotional sobriety but possibly also my physical sobriety.

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

Less frequently discussed is how many of us are chronically unhappy because we don't come up to the expectations of our children, many of whom delight in showing us their disapproval.