But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.