I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

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.

Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.