Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

To love and to labor is the sum of living.