An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Your story should inspire others. Your journey should inspire you.

Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

You read the past in some old faces.