It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

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.

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.