I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

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 was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

My dad was a preacher.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

I like movies that make you think.