My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

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.

Changing your words, changes your mind. Changing your mind alters your energy and that is what changes your life.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

When the bell rings, your trainer can't help you.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.