Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

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.

Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

America's a very traumatized society.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

See it, believe it, achieve it.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.