Every disadvantage has its advantage.
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.