In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

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.

My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.