"Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong."

“This is your brain on magic.”

“Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”

Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

“I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.”

Source : "Interview with Lorraine Bracco, Carolyn Maloney, John Dingell". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 24, 2002.

“As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.”

“When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.”

“I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.”

Source : Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.ign.com. December 6, 2007.

“I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.”

“And the first king was a lucky soldier.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2003). “Conquistador: It's 1946. The White Man is about to Discover America”, ROC Hardcover