We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

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.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.