To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.