There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

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.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Never underestimate human stupidity.

His Kiss:He has me at his every whim

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.