People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

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.

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Go out into the world and run straight at whatever you fear the most.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

If you use big words, no one will know you aren't doing jack squat.