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 ….

Dreams are essential to life..

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, an….

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for ….

To love and to labor is the sum of living..

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked..

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's ….

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries..

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics..

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case….

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfuln….

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it..

People living deeply have no fear of death..

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds..

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, ….

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again..

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another..

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling….

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary….

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots..

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison..