Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

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.

I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!