I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

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.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1, 000 movies during college.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.