At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

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

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.