“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Wake up and ponder the future.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

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.

It’s late and I’m tired, but still I wait on your call. Your voice is the medication for the frustration with the distance.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Morality has got nothing to do with the politicians. Simply, because the straight line is considered by them as the longest distance between the two points.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!