The champagne was dead. So it goes.

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.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

I think the biggest achievement of my life is that I followed my heart when I knew what it wanted, and had faith in destiny when I didn't know what it held.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Cowboys don’t go around breaking hearts.

We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.