In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on….

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes..

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences..

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head..

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally..

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the ….

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they ha….

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking….

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut….

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind..

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have ….

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat..

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them..

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation ….

Spring makes everything look filthy..

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really ….

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any..

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to..

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it..

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly ….

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?.