Cat Stevens is being eight years old and riding in the front seat of my mom's yellow 1977 CJ-7 Jeep and watching her pound out the beat on the stick shift.

And I used to say that liking Harold & Maude was my litmus test for being a good person. Until I realized that such a statement was antithetical to Maude's spirit. So now I even try to like people who don't like Harold & Maude. They are, after all, my species.