If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

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.

If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.

I am an architect of words

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.