In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.