Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.