The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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.

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.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

I trust myself, the way I prepare. I feel like I know what I'm doing.

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.