Dreams are necessary to life..

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what g….

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of….

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains s….

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself..

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, cont….

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anest….

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no uglin….

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice..

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more wal….

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermom….

In chaos, there is fertility..

We have been poisoned by fairy tales..

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live….

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama..

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination..

My diary seems to keep me whole..

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves..

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together..

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together..