The world is crammed with delightful things

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.

May God direct your path.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Of writing many books there is no end.

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

The future never just happened. It was created.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.