For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

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

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

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

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

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.