My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

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.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.

Protect me from my friendsI can take care of my enemies

No matter how pale and pure and perfect you are, the moon is even more perfect.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.