“What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.”

So let the storm rage. Let the storm rage.

The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren’t for them, the reactor would explode.

A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

I’m not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now.

Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit.

On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I’m back

People want to see realism in action now.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.

People want to see realism in action now.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it’s the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It’s easy to love them.