Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

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.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

You don't get a life until you make one worth living.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.

I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.