Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

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.

You were born to live the best of being.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.