It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

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.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Come on with the rain / I’ve a smile on my face.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.