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.

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.

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.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I'll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?

Decisive is definite.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.