To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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.

One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.