If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life.

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.