I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

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.

When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.