The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

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.

...when 'empowering women' becomes 'overpowering women' not only is it the polar opposite of feminism

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'