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

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

They don’t hardly make ’em like him any more – but just to be on thesafe side, he should be castrated anyway.

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.

I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger’s brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Hell yes, I’m from Texas,” deserves whatever happens to...

Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who’d been given a choice between being shipped off to the New...

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

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but...

The only problem with the Angels’ new image was that the outlaws themselves didn’t understand it. It puzzled them to be treated as symbolic heroes by people with whom they had almost nothing in common....

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For the last twenty-six years of his life he worked...

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music – except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet...

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

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction...

It never got weird enough for me.