In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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 commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
There is probably some long-standing “rule” among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: “When you start stealing from your own work you’re in bad trouble.” And it may be true.
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
Fear is just another word for ignorance.
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.