The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

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 Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.