I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

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.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

In hell, the Devil is God.

I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.