But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

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.

Love, too, was just a question of time

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.