and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

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.

All plots are cliche.

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.