Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes, " he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.

How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.