Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

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.

Take all of me, ” he said against her mouth.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

We've got a third, first and a pole; I don't think you could ask for much more than that. Hopefully we can finish it off [tonight].

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team