I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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.

Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.