Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.