I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

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.

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

The world is for you and for the ones who roll out the carpet, even if it's tattered. They're scattered all over. And if you look carefully, they can help you find your way home, wherever you are.

American diversity rarely applies to money and success.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.