It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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 starry night moon was smiling with beauty and charm that let me know that I am the star in her sky, and she loves me forever.

Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

It’s the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they’ve been good to me.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.