"I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me."

"America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money in the world and still not happy."

"I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to be a journalist, and I always wanted to be a rock star."

"I still believe that America is a good idea. I also believe that a lot of what we're doing right now is going to destroy that idea."

"As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be so deathly dull."