Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.