One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among 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.

The act of making a decision can propel you along for a while, even if you never do anything.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.