Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

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.

Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Tingling fingers, morning birds, rain splatters on window pane, journals of fading escapades and laughter...

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.