Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

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.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color.