We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

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.

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark...

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.