Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

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.

Life wants you to live in total alignment with true love, passion and integrity.

I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!

Our flushing hearts, trying to climb to the stars- how with the wrong wind, we can fall.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.