Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

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.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary

We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.