Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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.

Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

The eyes envy the mind.