I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse

More than Gyms, we need centers where we can exercise how to be grateful for things we have & we got, which will add life to our life.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.