I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.