There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.

The best government is that which governs least.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?