I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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.

This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.