The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

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.

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

Life is about connection, not perfection.

Do you know how when you're moving really fast in a car, and you're looking at the road, you get sick, but if you look at the trees you're fine? She's my trees, man.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.