Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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 in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

I'm impatient sometimes.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.