“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”

“And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be...”

“--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.”

“If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.”

“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.”

“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”