I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

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 won't sleepif that's what it takesto not wake upas myself

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Love water, protect it:

Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.