What a bummer it is to be a human being.

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.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch