Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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.

You never know what will save you.

We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. —Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM

It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

[Adolf Hitler] hardly ever called [Eva Braun] "Eva." He had many Austrian diminutives for her. He called her "Evi" quite often as well as Schatzerl, Evchen, as well as other Austrian expressions.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now