Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

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.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.