Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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.

A mother is a dealer of hope.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.