What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

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.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.