Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.