Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

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.

My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

You took too much man, too much, too much.