I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burro….

Good people drink good beer..

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . ….

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life ….

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened..

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in ….

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journali….

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal de….

["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just ….

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top..

We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main n….

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

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, i….

Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national s….

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser..

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, ….

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parent….

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity..

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop..

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious..