He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

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.

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

Where are you going?" I asked. "The middle of nowhere." "I thought this was it." "Nah." You shook your head. "This is just the edge.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.