Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

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.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

I'm the one and only. In heaven and on Earth

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.