Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.