All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

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.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.