“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”

“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”