At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

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.