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..

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speak….

"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key wo….

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it..

Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I st….

Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling….

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics..

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the frea….

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident..

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn'….

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate..

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again..

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, n….

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that..

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages..

Reality itself is too twisted..

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the othe….

I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually non….

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts..

I've been studying drugs for years..