To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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.

We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.

Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.

No hope no action.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.