The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

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.

Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won’t sparkle in the sunshine, he’ll just marry you.

Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up— it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.