If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

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.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.

Life is too short for a long story

The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.