I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

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 best way to create a better future is to do your best at this very moment.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ” “Oh, please.” “Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ” “I don’t think so.” “Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ” “I’m out of here.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.