The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

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.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love.

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.