I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Adolescence is like cactus.

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

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