The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

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.

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.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Dry snow coming down in the hills. Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees. A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.