I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.