"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

"There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present."

"Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage."

"For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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..."

"Still humping the American Dream"

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

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

"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."