Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

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.

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Science is no longer fiction, but Reality may become one.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.