I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.