Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity..

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We ….

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning..

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age..

I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my bel….

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him..

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing..

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time..

No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitat….

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need..

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinac….

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not….

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought..

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence..

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice..

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living..

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams..

Great repressions create dualities..

Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild….

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are..

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I brui….