Waves are toys from God.

If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

« Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked. “Starving.” “I think we should go to dinner.” “Great idea.” “What are you going to wear?” “My badass face.” “Good choice,” he said. »

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.