Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Chocolate just may be the healthiest thing you can put in your mouth.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.