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

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.