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

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

I feel trapped if I know I can't kill myself at anytime

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach