The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

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 question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

It's a purpose that brings us all together, working for something larger than ourselves.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.