Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

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

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.