Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Even disasters there are always disasters when you travel can be turned into adventures.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.