Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

It is possible to find the passion to read.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.