It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

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.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

I don't criticise the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.