George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

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 love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

He loved adventure but then he got hired by accenture!

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.