Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

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.

The Word of God gives power, authority and abundant life to a man.

Old habits for old people

A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

People always remember the second half.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.