To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Adolescence is like cactus.