Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.