willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.