Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

People enjoy media and games in different ways - some people enjoy something that they can take seriously and invest themselves in. That's something we're comfortable with.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.