Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.