Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

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