Use words that soak up life.

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.

Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.