You can't be careful on a skateboard.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.