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As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.

With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74

In the argot of the cycle world the Harley is a "hog," and the outlaw bike is a "chopped hog.

I am not a Criminal, by trade, but over the years I have developed a distinctly criminal nervous system. Some people might call it paranoia, but I have lived long enough to know that there is no such thing as paranoia. Not in the 21st Century. No. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

You're going to need plenty of legal advice before this thing is over. And my first advice is that you should rent a very fast car with no top and get the hell out of L.A. for at least forty-eight hours. This blows my weekend, because naturally I'll have to go with you—and we'll have to arm ourselves.

What election?" he asked. "Never mind," I said. "I was only kidding." One

because what I want you to tell me, Mother Roberts—and I mean this very seriously—is why have I been in Houston for eight days without anybody offering me some cocaine?

Listen, madam," he snapped. "I'm damn near intolerably handsome down here where I am. You'd go crazy if I stood up!

666 Pennsylvania Ave. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." —Revelation 13:18

Thompson was inundated with fan mail and phone calls, which he said was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.

For "what the soul is to the body of man," Saint Augustine was to write, "that the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church.

the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday.

That's the thing about a good porter"–and he shrugged, or shook his head and sounded so rueful and sort of growly as he said, "Deals with all your baggage.

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.

Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.

I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.

Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?

Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.' 'No? Spelt like Yes?' 'That's right.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.