Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.