As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

The main purpose of education isn't just to receive a certification that leads to a career, but to become a well-rounded person in so many aspects of life.

And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love

The miserable have no medicine but hope.

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.