I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

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.

Thank God for the gift of life.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Our epoch does not love itself.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.