As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

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 really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The next time someone chides you for using your intuition, inform them that you are just checking in with the 96 percent of the universe that can’t be counted up, analyzed or measured.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."