American - Journalist | July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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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.
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Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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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.
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I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
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