We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

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.

You have to learn before you can earn.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

When you focus on place you do everything differently.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

We were watching Barrons. Why were you watching Barrons? Barrons needs watching.

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.