He is every other inch a gentleman.

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.

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?