Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

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.

To lose time is to lose life

Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.