People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

The success is like an umbrella. It has wires in it called faith. It has no meaning if there is no rain and storm called ebbs and flows of life.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Trick names are so ridiculous!

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.