We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

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.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.