Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.