But I Like It

"FROM MY VANTAGE POINT, perched on the very middle rung of middle age, a little gassy and liable to nod off after dinner but backed by full liquor and medicine cabinets and festooned with the laurels of my innumerable successes, I look back with neither tear nor sigh, in fact only because dollars have swapped hands, at the creature I was as a youth: long-haired, disrespectful, self-righteously if not purposefully impoverished, and half-crazed about rock and roll."