Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

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

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.