"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee."

"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison."

"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark."