She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

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 inferior put others down

Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.