Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

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.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter.

Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

As was his language so was his life.