Kill the body and the head will die.

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.

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

It never got weird enough for me.

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.