For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

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.