No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

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.

We often don’t realise how much strength we have until challenged to use it. Once tested, we know how strong or weak we are.

To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.