I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

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 firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Opposition is the very spur of love.