Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

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.

There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!

Cause I don't appreciatePeople whoDon't appreciate

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.