Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

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.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Light the candle of love. Spread the rays of happiness in every direction in every breath.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

History does not have sides, although historians do.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.