If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
Good people drink good beer.
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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 anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits – and millions of Americans agree with me.
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.