Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.