Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Hollywood is a mirage factory.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.