Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.