Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

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.

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.