Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

When I teach people, I marry them.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.