Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Good people drink good beer.

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.