What I need most of all is certainty.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.