... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

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.

Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.