Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me