Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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 thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

If hate, the antonym of love, is one strong word that we all know it exist but despise, why do people like playing with LOVE like it's nonentity?

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.