No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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 other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

when you lose your sails, row.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

And learn the luxury of doing good.