Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

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.

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

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.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.