All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.

Go somewhere people only dream of in their most wildest imagination.

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

Gossip, slander and jealousy have caused more pain than many wars.

If life is unfair with everyone, doesn’t that make life fair

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.