As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

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.

The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.

When we confuse the needs with the desires

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

I'm pregnant with triplets now and I feel really good.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.