..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.