Women alone stir my imagination.

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.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.