I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.