The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!