I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

God gives everybody gifts, but he doesn't give anybody all the gifts.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Politics is no exact science.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.