You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

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 was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

Mother's love grows by giving.

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.

All I ever wanted was to make scrilla Have a recording session with J Dilla.

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.