Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

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.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!

Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.