Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

If you want to do something... get up and actually do it!

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

I need very little reality.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Anytime you think you hate somebody, what you do is pray for them. Try it, you’ll see.

I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . .

Charity must be voluntary.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.