Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

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.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.

Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.

Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.