A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

Dreams are essential to life.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.