the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

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.

When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

The secret to sucessful customer service starts with YES!

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.