If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

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.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

I really do believe that much of what coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.