I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.