I am so rich that I must give myself away.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.