... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of 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.

I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.