Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.