Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

The happiest people are not always the richest, but they are always abundant with kindness and content with their richness

In ambiguous situations, it's a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.

I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

I believe that art has incredible power.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Don't start drinking before the fifth song.