He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

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.

At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing.

I think the media is a real demon.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

Music makes a quiet mind.

I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen.