I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Buying is profound pleasure.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.