My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

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 are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.

Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.

Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.