I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.