We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom..

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know ….

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgi….

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks..

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dea….

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meani….

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope..

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads i….

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile wh….

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle to….

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work….

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers..

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big wh….

You took too much man, too much, too much..

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency condu….

There's also a down side..

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list..

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the hu….

Without gambling, I would not exist..

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it..

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are leg….