There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.