There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

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.

To be happy is to be a little bit sad for it is the negative that balances the positive. What is the use of being happy if there is no sadness?

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.