Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

God, I had great people in my life.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.