O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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.

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.

That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.