The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

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.

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.