He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

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.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

I have never felt any pain that I can remember.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.