The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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 found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

All tradition is merely the past.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

Create the world you want to see.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.