She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

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.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.