Rita Gomes

“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“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

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
― Susan Sontag

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