I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.