Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.