It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla wa….

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal..

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should..

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast ….

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. ….

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at t….

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear an….

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

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain..

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces..

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spiri….

A word to the wise is infuriating..

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's ca….

Still humping the American Dream.

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

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

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time..

But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical ….

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whol….

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes..

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English ….