No. This is serious. One more hour in this town and I'll kill somebody! |
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. |
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. |
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. |
So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. |
Some may never live, but the crazy never die |
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. |
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. |
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. |
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. |
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs |
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. |
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years. |
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. |
Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink. |