I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

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.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

People who copy you will always be one step behind.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.

How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.