Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Our thoughts and feelings make us whereas love and beauty sustain us.

Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

The woman lived inside him, was his mate.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.