My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

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.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

I've always thought the prettiest smiles are the ones that show the most teeth.

Sometimes you get lost and you find something new.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.