Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.