We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.