We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

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.

... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision.

In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody but me.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.