We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

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.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

Experience is the mother of custom.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.