One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.