I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.

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

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