I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union. . . I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right. ' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?
Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. . . . As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.