Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

Freedom is from within.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Common sense is not so common.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.