We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

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.

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

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

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.