All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

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.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Every kind deed is an act of love.

If words could build a bridge In the dimension where you belong I would bind the syllables to see your smile again.

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.