I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.