"It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right."

"It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night."

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

"The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase."

"You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands."

"Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten."

"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"

"It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear."

"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

"All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem"

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"

"Good people drink good beer."

"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."

"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing."

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

"It never got weird enough for me."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."

"Too weird to live, too rare to die!"