By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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.

A man can not return anything except what is full.

Be strong enough to ignore the negative opinions of people, so that your positive spirit could illuminate your true unique colors.

it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it, its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.