The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

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.

Be always employed to something useful.

The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

People feel like they grew up with me.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.