Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

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.

Every believer experiences the Joy of salvation

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.