All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Does someone else care as much about you as I do?

The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?

Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions…

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.