"Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested."

"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely."

"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached."

"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."

"You can't miss what you never had."

"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."

"No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted."

"Pray to God, but row away from the rocks."

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."

"To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully."

"Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed."

"Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing."

"I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time."

"I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous."

"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."

"Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats."

"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."

"Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!"

"I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real."

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

"I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal."

"Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all."

"And the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly"

"One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight."

"I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine."

"You took too much man, too much, too much."

"Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks..."

"I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music."

"He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore."

"Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop."

"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards."

"She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain."

"I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late."

"And he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing."

"You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains."

"Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo."

"Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile."

"Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty."

"What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?"

"My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate."

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''"

"It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back."

"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

"Nature is not human hearted."

"He who knows he has enough is rich."

"Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax starve also"

"He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful."