We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.