The big show is inside my head.

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.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Success doesn't come to procrastinators, but only to men of action

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.