I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

You can't miss what you never had.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.