Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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.

If you really think that the enviroment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.

I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.

He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.