"The only way to write well is to write badly first."

"An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue."

"I am a feminist. I've been a feminist all my life. I think it's a perfectly normal thing to be."

"I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."