Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Thoughts have no sex.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

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.