As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

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.

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.