Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.