I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s “People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
He’s the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he’s getting it.
That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
I don’t think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn’t it?
Ocean, Ocean I’ll beat you in the end.
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren’t for the cartoon figures being real guys...
His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can’t lift, something everybody knows he can’t lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
They can’t tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
People don’t want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you’re a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?