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.

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.

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.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people

I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.