There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. - Anaïs Nin

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.