"I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time."

"I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous."

"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."

"Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats."

"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."

"Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!"

"I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real."

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

"I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal."

"Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all."

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

"One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight."

"I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine."

"You took too much man, too much, too much."

"Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks..."

"I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music."

"He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore."

"Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop."

"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards."

"She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain."

"I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late."

"And he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing."

"You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains."

"Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo."

"Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile."

"Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty."

"What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?"

"My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate."

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."

"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it."

"Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious."

"Still humping the American Dream"

"Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious..."

"I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since."

"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."

"A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long."

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."

"You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life."

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

"I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again."

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs"

"Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want"

"There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal."

"I am a road man for the lords of karma."

"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums."

"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."