fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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.

Action is what makes hope a reality.

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.