Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

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.

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.