The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

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

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.