... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

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.

You could die, " she whispered. "Everything dies, " he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Live today as if there will be many tomorrows!

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I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

keep your hand moving

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.