History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

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.

A little hope and love now and thenWise and beautiful, more than often.

Got anything to eat?" I asked."You know where the gas station is, " said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

The awkward thing is the people in the room besides us. It's not us. It's just the 20 or 30 people that are around on set, who normally wouldn't be on set. That's always interesting.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.