“What I hear is valueless; only what I see is living, and when I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.”

“I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.”

“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”

“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.”

“When I close my eyes, a strange thought comes to my mind. Who am I, what is my existence, this question comes again and again in my mind, I start looking for answers to my questions, time starts passing through me, then somewhere a golden ray starts appearing, when I see that ray I feel relaxed, slowly my eyes open, when I start getting answers to my questions.”

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”

“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”

“I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.”

“It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me
at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.”

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”