Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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.

What made me happy was not regular pay check I got but the passion I had on the side and the effort I was putting to make that passion come to life.

You want to believe you're not the saddest person in the world.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.