Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

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.

Challenges stimulate courage.

Third-eye is a gift from life. It’s the gift you receive when you travel the long path of both your external and internal reality towards the self.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.