Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.