The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

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

The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.