My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living..

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death..

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom..

We are never trapped unless we choose to be..

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar..

I love your silences, they are like mine..

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever opp….

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... some….

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our ….

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love..

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity..

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live..

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those wh….

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality ….

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me t….

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are..

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I lik….

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return..

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the….

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones..