The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

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.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.