If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

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.

There is a song in your heart, only you can hear it. In silence, that is the song of longing and love.

Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.

Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

I am the cat that walks alone.