We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child’s blind faith. I wept because my...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious...

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.