I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

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 exist no more, every moment a new being lives inside me.

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.