And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.'Nope, ' I replied.

Life must be enjoyed to be truly lived.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.