"Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. - Hunter S. Thompson

Can I get to the bottle of Old Crow and mix it up with the remains of these ice fragments...a cool drink for the freak? Give the gentleman something cool, dear, can't you see he's wired his brain to the water pump and his ears to the generator...

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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.