Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.