One must lose one's life to find it.

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.