There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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.

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.

Self-determination is self-reliance.

Brie's expiration date on revenge was never.

single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it.

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.