It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

I like facts, I like books, I like films... but you still know the few from everything about me.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.