Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

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.

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I'm not very good at parties. I'm a wallflower.

Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.