Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

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.

Never crave for anyone, you will get what you're destined in your life! Trust Existence!

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.