Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future..

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing ….

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep ….

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day,….

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older a….

Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean w….

A little bit of this town goes a very long way..

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out th….

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time..

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the l….

And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't nee….

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

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you t….

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way..

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narr….

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum..

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night..

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long..

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing..

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism..

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What….