Life is a verb, not a noun.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."He raised an eyebrow."That could be easily arranged.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

TV is the best babysitter.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

I'm just here so I won't get fined.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.