Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

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.

Thy wish was father to that thought.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

Trends that can't continue, won't.

In our good works nothing is our own.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.