People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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 reject the Word of God is forsake the holy grace.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Don't look for me in a human shape, I am inside your looking.