Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.