Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

That's where the money is, on the road.

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

You’ll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me.