Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.