You become who you pretend to be.

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 a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

I do politics in order to do policy.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.