I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

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.

All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen.

If you can act right, you are richer than you think.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.