Rita Gomes

“This is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me... I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
― Susan Sontag

“Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980