God damn it, you've got to be kind.

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.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

We ought to live in the marvellous light.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Find your reason and hold it tight.

Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my bodyPut your right hand on the book and you were found guiltyI can’t wait forever but that’s how it’s gonna beFor me they’ll never beCase Closed

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.