Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

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.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.