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.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.” Jareth the Goblin King

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?