As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

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

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

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

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

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

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

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