Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.

Never believe you have a Spouse or a Friend until problems come.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.