There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men’s emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs – unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
Wake up and ponder the future.
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach.
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
Too weird to live, too rare to die!
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious...
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn’t want.
He had come so far from himself that I don’t think he knew who he was anymore.
We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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.