The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

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.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.