And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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.

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.