All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

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.

There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.

It’s okay to DREAM and dream BIG.

It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from theLord, Who created heaven and earth.

These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

He who thinks little errs much.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.