Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

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.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.