“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.”

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

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.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

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.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven’t an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist’s job is very interesting.

We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.

Information is not knowledge.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.