All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.

A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.