Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

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.

Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.