The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

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.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

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.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

I'm mighty glad that I found you. Have a terrific birthday.