People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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 don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable.

Keep a smile, It will enrich your profile.Don't be sad, It only effects bad.

The misery of life lies in our thinking".

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

I think it's good to be passionate, and I think it's even good to be obsessed about a show. Why not? I think it's great!

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.