Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

We're frightened of what makes us different.