“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy”

“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.”

“When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?”

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”

“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.”

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”

“Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, “It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.” 

“the model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then,” 

“As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.” 

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.”

“Depression is rage spread thin.”

“Rhyming in itself is magic.” 

“All movements need a few people who can’t be fired.” 

“Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.” 

“After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.” 

“The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason,” she often explained. “It’s to keep your ass sensitive.” 

“For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don’t take themselves seriously, someone else will.” 

“Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181” 

“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.”

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”