And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.

I kept thinking of her eyes, the depths of them, the way she looked right into me, and I wasn't afraid of what she'd find.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.

I wanted to work with an elephant.