Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

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

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

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

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.