It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

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.

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.