I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

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

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

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

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?