To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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.

Love was holding someone's hand when you wanted to escape.

Now you also know what it is to be wanted and loved.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.