[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

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.

Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.