I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

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.

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

The future is embedded in the present.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.