How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.

In chaos, there is fertility.

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

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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Reality doesn’t impress me

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as the reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you

When you possess light within, you see it externally

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

We see the world as ‘we’ are, not as ‘it’ is; because it is the “I” behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life

Do not seek the because – in love, there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” ~ Anais Nin”We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape one way or another. No more walls.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness

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

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements

We are never trapped unless we choose to be

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure

I don’t hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage