Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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.

Listening is the art of love and appreciation.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

A wish is a desire without energy

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena