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All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

And the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.

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.

You people voted for Hubert Humphrey and killed Jesus!

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious ...

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.

With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74,

I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Fear? I know not fear. There are only moments of confusion.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

We are going out again in search of the American dream.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it.

Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at people.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?

Arriving half-drunk in a foreign place is hard on the nerves. You have a feeling that something is wrong, that you can't get a grip.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!

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

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich ...

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

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I feel trapped if I know I can't kill myself at anytime

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good ...

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness.

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

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

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

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

It's Your World...Pay Attention

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

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.

In the argot of the cycle world the Harley is a "hog," and the outlaw bike is a "chopped hog.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee.

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

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

The crazy never die.

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

We are going to Court, Andrew. We are champions! We will crush them like cheap roaches! TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON!

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.

Relax - This won't hurt.

The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

You cheap honky faggots," he snarled. "Which one of you wants to get cut?