I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem..

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed..

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that..

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear..

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper..

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

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here..

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good..

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over th….

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it..

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have….

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions..

In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful….

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

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my b….

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity..

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness..

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the wor….

Myths and legends die hard in America..

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend..

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not ev….