“Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lu...”

“I dont want your babies, Felix. I can assure you Im not sitting up here like some tragic fallen woman every night dreaming of having your babies. She began tracing a figure of eight with her finger...”

“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”

“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”

“Human communication and literature are all made of words; thus, its hard to overestimate their unbelievable power.”

“Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.”

“We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.”