I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

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.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her.

Never PreparedAnd when you thinkThat you have foundYour feet planted firmlyAnd your heart soundThat is when the momentYou trip, Fall, And hit the ground.

My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food, ' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.