What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you 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.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

All eternity is in the moment.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.