Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.