Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

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.

Life is a gift and every day is an opportunity to share your gift with others. Don’t be grateful, be fabulously grateful

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.