High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

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.

Meditation is a flower, and compassion is its fragrance.

Hands move rocks

Make up for every mistake you make in life. Some of us humans tend to learn from our mistakes and others tend to make the same false mistakes." ― Sage Canny

Perfection doesn't exist here, AWESOME does.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.