- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
- If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- 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.
- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Buy the ticket take the Ride
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
- Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!"
- In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
- You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes.
- In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
- Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
nov 27 2008 ∞
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