Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

You fall in love with people's minds.