I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

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.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.