What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

You fall in love with people's minds.

Hollywood is a mirage factory.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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.