It's dangerous to assert oneself.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.