Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

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.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

If someone said "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write "I want to go outside and play."

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Burn bread every day boy, no toaster

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.