Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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.

I was only able to move forward once I let go of my fear of leaving him behind.

It was probably my mother's screaming that frightened the cat. It's just a guess. No one knows for sure why a cat fell from a ten-storey building onto my head.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.