What a comfort is friendship in this 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.

One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.

Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

My crotch is like scrambled eggs

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]