If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.