To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

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.

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

I hated suits until I wore a Calvin Klein; they just fit me.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.