I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent,...

Our age has need of violence,” he writes. And he is violence.

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it...

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

I’m in love with New York. It matches my mood. I’m not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the...