"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”

“You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”