Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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.

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.