"My most important vote was the one I threw away. In 1968, I refused to vote for Hubert Humphrey and therefore helped elect Richard Nixon president of the United States. I have regretted it ever since. Sometimes you look at your choices and you feel like putting a gun to your head.

Unfortunately, shit flows down hill, and in this society the people at the bottom are drowning in it. To them, having one guy who's just a hairbreadth better than another can be the difference between life and death. I've become very good at discerning that fine line's worth of difference between one totally worthless son of a bitch and another" (George Magazine, November 1996).