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

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.”

“You'd better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands.”

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.”

“Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.”

“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.”