Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Silence too can be indiscreet.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
Might I be the one I am looking for?
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.
Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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