Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.