We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

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

Each friend represents a world in us.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.