I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.