I prefer men to cauliflowers

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.

Not everyone has understanding, so everyone won't understand

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running for president you need to look as good as you can look.