"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

"A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."