Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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 matters most is that you take the journey (of self awareness and transformation).

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.