I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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.

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The way of transgressors is hard.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.