It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

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.

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

Young lovers are always doomed.

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.