People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

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.

Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.