right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

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.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.