Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

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

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.