I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

All records are not made to be broken.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

[N]ever stop being yourself.

Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.