We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.