Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

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

It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll take a long shot bet on that.