The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an….

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's mus….

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way..

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love..

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all….

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation….

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind f….

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe..

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as ….

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of e….

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself..

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium..

You fall in love with people's minds..

One may gain one truth at the expense of another..

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others..

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too..

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved..

I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously..

Introspection is a devouring monster..

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing..

I write emotional algebra..