The truth is always a surprise.
The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness.
People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourse...
The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I s...
I’ve said it’s over for the white races, an obvious truth which caused much agitation amongst the journalists. The rich will rule as usual; they come in all colours, particularly yellow.
If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love.
How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?
Starenje nije za slabice.
It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As...
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
I know you so well, and you’ll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
لعله من الخطأ أن عدم معرفة المرء بالأشياء الإيروتيكية والرغبة الدنيوية تساعد في قتل الرغبة. إذ يمكن للرغبة أن تجد أصغر فجوة تسلل منها
Nothing consoles like the blues.
Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse.
Love cannot be measured by its duration...
Is she always elusive? Her whole life’s a no-show.
I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.