Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

a writer is a foreign country

In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.