You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time.
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
Women are less aesthetic than men.
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.