There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

- Ingrid Bengis

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

- Ingrid Bengis

For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own reality more…

- Ingrid Bengis

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

- Ingrid Bengis

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their tru…

- Ingrid Bengis

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

- Ingrid Bengis

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

- Ingrid Bengis

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a …

- Ingrid Bengis

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

- Ingrid Bengis