Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

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.

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

You have arms and legs, but don't know what to do with your lives.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

There is a God. God exists.