[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

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.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

God is spirit. The spirit dwells in a body. We are the Holy temple.

Magic is difficult to describe, to understand and to come to terms with and many people don’t want to feel different or unusual.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.