What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? - Anaïs Nin

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

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

"This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."