There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

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.

We always expect God and others to forgive us, but many of us don't have it in their hearts to forgive others. But don't forget that an unforgiving heart knows nothing about happiness.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.