For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes can be too.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.