Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

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.

embrace vulnerability

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.