That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

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.

Tex?” I whispered.“Yeah?”“Enemies or lovers right now?”He sighed and kissed my head. “Both, we’ll always be both.

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.