I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

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

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.