The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.