You've got to be a good date for the reader.

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.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

A prize fight is much like eating an ice-cream.Someone has to take a good licking!

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.