It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

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'm proud to be a work in progress.

Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?

My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.