…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.