The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

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.

When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader.

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

So much of who we are is where we have been.