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

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.