People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

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.

The true fate of tomorrow lies on what you make of today.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

I am a survivor of domestic violence.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.