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

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.