We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

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

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.