The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

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.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.