I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.