. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

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.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I dont ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Your humanity is your instrument.

Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.