If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.