But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

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 fight by rules to keep your humanity

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

Life is real, reality is not a dream. Those who chose to sleep...I wake em up, Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.

When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos.