Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Our love lives because I live.

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.