What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.