Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.