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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.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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.

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.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

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