right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

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

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.