Ingrid Bengis

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

— Ingrid Bengis

“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”

— Ingrid Bengis

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal…

— Ingrid Bengis

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

— Ingrid Bengis

“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours”

— Ingrid Bengis

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

“I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.”

— Ingrid Bengis

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your…

— Ingrid Bengis

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

— Ingrid Bengis

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

— Ingrid Bengis

“Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.”

— Ingrid Bengis

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

— Ingrid Bengis

For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to…

— Ingrid Bengis

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your…

— Ingrid Bengis

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book…

— Ingrid Bengis

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

— Ingrid Bengis

“This isn't business. This is poetry.”

— Ingrid Bengis