But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

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.

The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true.

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.