I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

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.

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.