When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

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.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.