The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

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.

I don't have expensive tastes – just bloody ones.– Vampire Dragul Mangorian

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.