Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.