Dreams are essential to life.

To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

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

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.