If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.