It is the duty of the writer to describe.

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.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.

every dream I have about kissing you ends with blood on my hands.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?