As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.