I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

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

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.