Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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