All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

at first sight everyone seems like human.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.