Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

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.

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.