Occupation: Journalist Birth: July 18, 1937 Death: February 20, 2005
Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward..
Crack is ruining the drug culture..
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My….
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want.
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs..
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired….
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it ….
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and ….
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth..
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards..
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have be….
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and una….
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids..
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way….
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis g….
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing ….
Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet….
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully..
Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, ….
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but o….
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They'….