"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry."
— Alisa Sheckley (Moonburn)

"The dead are way more organized than the living."
— China Miéville (Un Lun Dun)

"Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. "
— China Miéville

"It never got weird enough for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Curse of Lono)

"Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy."
— Katherine Alice Applegate (Animorphs: #14 The Unknown)