A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.