I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

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.

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.