Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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 thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.