Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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 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.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

Habit is the daily battleground of character

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!