You write in order to change the world.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.