Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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.

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.