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.

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.

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.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.

That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.

Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.