In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

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.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you either happy or miserable

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.