It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.