We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.