The dream has to be translated into reality.

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.