the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

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