I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2011) - ISBN: 9781439126899