"I write emotional algebra."

I have just discovered Anais Nin. I can't wait to read her collection of diaries and erotic stories. She seems fascinating.

Here are some of her quotes:

~Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

~My diary is a mirror telling the story of a dreamer who, a long long time ago went through life the way one reads a book.

~Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment the man rests inside of her.

~I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often.

~Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.