The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

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 Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.