To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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.

Books are the only things worth stealing.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?