One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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.

Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.

Things change, but they stay the same.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.