International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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.

We each survive in our own way.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.