I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.