a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

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 man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

These violators responded only as cowards could. They ran.

The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

It is better to die than to tell a lie

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.