Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.