There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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.

Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you

Failure is sometimes inevitable, but failing to get back up is what turns a lot of people into failures.

Without the Name, there is no peace.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.