I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

..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.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.