It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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.

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.