The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death