... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

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.

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

I'm Elijah. You've heard of me?

I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper