There is no story unless you've written it.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly