Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

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.

Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.