"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."

"The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public."

"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."

"March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters."

"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."