Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
Kill the body and the head will die.
I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it’s tense.
Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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.
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.