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.

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.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Always convert your time into wisdom

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.