No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

Knowledge is to seek, but not a job...

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!

I've been smokin' ever since I was two.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.