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

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.