It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

When people don't trust you, they may walk with you but they second guess every step you take- don't believe what you say is what you mean...

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

I do things with a lot of feeling.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.