Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

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.

I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.

What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.

Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

When someone changes your face, it's really shocking and scary.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.