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.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.

Down to earth person have two hearts

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.