A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.