I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

..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.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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

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

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.