Occupation: Journalist Birth: July 18, 1937 Death: February 20, 2005
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long..
I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward..
Buy the ticket, take the ride..
There is no story unless you've written it..
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife..
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down..
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shi….
Politics is the art of controlling your environment..
And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life ….
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal….
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend..
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner..
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind ….
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anyb….
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the sli….
The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal rel….
You can't miss what you never had..
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and h….
The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to saliva….
I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted..
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary..