It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

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.

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.