If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

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 am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.

Dark is dark in the darkness.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare, ' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

I have some real big goals with England.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.