But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Skating is now retro and hip.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.