I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Lies are in the minds, but the truth is in the soul

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

I was not sorry when my brother died.