You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

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.

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.