Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

I am a merchant of dreams who sells you for free.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.