If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House.
I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
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 belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The fir...
How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the...
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It’s a hamburger with chili on it.
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.Remembered line from a long-forgotten poem
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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 today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous co...
Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.
When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil, the public soul of this country has changed forever, and profess...
What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country.
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive.... And suddenly there w...
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic univ...
There is an important difference between the words 'losers' and 'outlaw.' One is passive and the other is active, and the main reason the Angels are such good copy is that they are acting out the day-...
The wide receiver had a real taste for crime, and he indulged it with an erratic kind of vigor that made him an albatross for Madden and a natural soulmate for my old friend, Al Davis, who remains the...
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 salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almo...
The strategy worked like a charm, and in 1980 Jimmy Carter was swept away like offal by the Reagan Revolution, which ushered in eight years of berserk looting of the federal treasury and the economic...