Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

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.

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.