I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

I've never not been famous.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.