"The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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..."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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