It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

Everyone is the right person for the right person.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.