Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

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 know what happened to her, right?

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.