I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

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.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."

U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].