He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anaïs Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin
Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when Im exploding with rage, every time I imagine my mans achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter T-E-A-M, Yea, Team. – Louise Bernikow