You cannot save people. You can only love them.

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

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, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.