Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

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

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

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