The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

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.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.