The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

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.

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids.

I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.