How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

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.

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.