As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.