No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

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.

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.