We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.