When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

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.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?