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

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.