“Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky”

“Passion gives me moments of wholeness”

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”

“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”

“Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.”

“Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh”

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”