Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.