The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.