A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

A good writer is an excellent reader.

...it is hard to throw off long-established love:hard, but this you must managed somehow

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me I can't remember why I got married.

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.