Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the euphoria of the healthy person... You perceive an increase in self control and possess more vitality and capacity for work. In other words, you are simply more normal, and it is soon hard to believe that you are under the influence of any drug.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The great question...which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years into the feminine soul, is 'What do women want?'

Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder.

One is very crazy when in love.

Occasionally I have had to admit to myself that the annoying, awkward stepping aside on the street, whereby for some seconds one steps here and there, yet always in the same direction as the other person, until finally both stop facing each other...conceals erotic purposes under the mask of awkwardness.