As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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.

Science is good, is not God.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

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