The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

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.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.

Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.