The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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 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.

my boy? he is evenbetter than books. -fiction has nothing on you.

God is the designer of the family.

Until we meet someday.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.