I'm sick of my own romanticism!

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.