‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

You don't need to know the word of God; you need to know the God of the word.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.