The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.

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.

If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.