Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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.

AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because that’s what friends do. We’ve been through a lot together, so here’s to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.