The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment. - Anaïs Nin

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.