My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.