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

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.