[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.