“ I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

“ 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. ”

“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ”

“ Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ”

“ What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ”

“ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ”

“ Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ”

“ The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ”