You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.