Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.