It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

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.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

I rebel

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.