Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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.

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.