Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.