Just sick enough to be totally confident

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.

Come what may and hell to pay.

Warriors achieve more than worriers.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

We read best what we read most.