[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard