Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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.

And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Awe is the best drug in the world

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.